Gradience in prosodic representation: vowel reduction and neoclassical elements in Brazilian Portuguese
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عنوان ژورنال: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2397-1835
DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.1413